[matplotlib-devel] ggplot for matplotlib

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Droettboom
I just learned about this today, and thought I'd share. It's an implementation of the ggplot interface on top of matplotlib: http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/ggplot-for-python.html -- _ |\/|o _|_ _. _ | | \.__ __|__|_|_ _ _ ._ _ | ||(_| |(_|(/_| |_/|(_)(/_|_ |_|_)(_)(_)| |

Re: [matplotlib-devel] ggplot for matplotlib

2013-10-21 Thread Todd
Seems like a lot of what they are doing could be upstreamed into matplotlib. Then they could just wrap it in their own ggplot syntax. That would improve matplotlib and simplify the maintainance for them. On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: I just

Re: [matplotlib-devel] ggplot for matplotlib

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Droettboom
Yes -- I reached out to the author about exactly that this morning. It would be great to closely collaborate on this. Mike On 10/21/2013 01:06 PM, Todd wrote: Seems like a lot of what they are doing could be upstreamed into matplotlib. Then they could just wrap it in their own ggplot

Re: [matplotlib-devel] ggplot for matplotlib

2013-10-21 Thread Jason Grout
On 10/21/13 12:11 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: Yes -- I reached out to the author about exactly that this morning. It would be great to closely collaborate on this. Awesome. I saw this on HackerNews a few days ago and got really excited about it. So a big +1 from me. Thanks, Jason